MCC Daily Tribune

Visiting Writer Sejal Shah, Tuesday, October 1

On Tuesday, October 1, from 2 to 3:20 p.m., visiting writer Sejal Shah will read and discuss her essay "Who's Indian?" from her celebrated collection of nonfiction pieces called This is One Day to Dance. The event, which will occur on the Brighton Campus in 9-260, is free and open to all members of the MCC Community. 

Sejal Shah is a writer whose work crosses genres and disciplines. She is the author of the debut short story collection How to Make Your Mother Cry: Fictions (West Virginia University Press, 2024). She is also the author of the award-winning debut essay collection, This Is One Way to Dance, an NPR Best Book of 2020. Her stories and essays have appeared widely in print and online—including Brevity, the Guardian, Guernica, Conjunctions, the Kenyon Review, Lit Hub, and Longreads. Sejal is the recipient of a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship in fiction and residencies or fellowships from Blue Mountain Center, the Kenyon Review Writers’ Workshop, Kundiman, Millay Arts, and VCCA. In 2021, she was named an influential AAPI Leader by Good Morning America and ABC News.

Anthony Leuzzi
English and Philosophy
09/26/2024